[webkit-dev] Announcing WebKit2

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 5:47 PM, Xan Lopez wrote:

>
> I suppose I could wait until you land the patches and see by myself,  
> but:
>
> - In the wiki you mention that one goal of the new framework is to
> provide a stable C-based API. Is this meant as a public API for
> WebKit, the same in all platforms (like JSC), or a stable internal API
> for embedders to use in order to implement their native APIs on top?
>> From some lines in the wiki (like WKView wrapping native objects) it
> seems like you want to do the former, but that seems like quite a
> massive effort and the loss of an important selling port of the
> various WebKit ports.

It will be available as a public API, but as Darin explained, it's up  
to individual ports whether to wrap this API, expose it directly, or  
do some combination. For the Mac OS X API, we will be doing a  
combination.

>
> - Does your new framework require any significant changes in WebCore?
> Could you briefly summarize them?

No WebCore changes are required - it works with the existing WebCore.

>
> - Do you see valid usecases in the long term for the "traditional"
> ports or are your plans to quickly transition all code to the new
> system as soon as it's ready?

I think that would be up to the individual ports. We expect that on  
Mac OS X, we will have to support the "classic" WebKit API for a long  
time, perhaps indefinitely, in parallel with the new WebKit2-based API.

Regards,
Maciej